2 Gen 3 pro xr30 with t5, I experienced bleaching when I would cut my radions up to high, seemed like I had hot spots so I added the diffusers, I saw improvements after that but never seemed to take off. It’s to early to make final conclusions though.Which Radions were you using?
So you switched tubes and changed to 500W's of Halides and Radions (run at less than 100% btw) were a problem???
since expressing subtle emotions isn't easy consider the question more of a HUH!!! than anything else..
THANKs.. that makes thing at least clearer..
With the radions I was using 4 blue +, with the halides I was running 4 actinic but felt it needed more blue which is why I swapped out to have 2 blue + and 2 actinic. With the radions I was running sps ab+. FWIW I don’t have enough knowledge to say one is better and not enough time to validate if the halides work better for me.THANKs.. that makes thing at least clearer..
Just for reference.at full should be close to "effective" levels of a 250W MH.........diffusers can cut that by about 20%..
136W.. effective.
Keep in mind you also "upped" "not blue" a bit w/ the t5 switch..
Point is you switched multiple "things" each of which can have an effect..
To be honest, a better comparison would have been to not switch the t5's..
.sorry these things are my puzzles..
this has nothing to do w/ "which is better" but a why....
What was your last "pattern" w/ the Radions?
Think you'll like them
I had the par loss of 15% with diffuser, not sure if that correlates to watts
Yea that corresponds to the 20% ...close enough. Just using past reported numbers..
Also to add I ran 4 54 watt blue + t5 at the same time I ran the radions. I now run t5 then halides then t5 but not at the same time so the watts should be close.
A halide is going to bleed out a various percentage of its light depending on the type of reflector it uses similar to a Radion that might lose 20 percent when a diffuser is added to reduce hotspots and widen coverage. They both pay a price to achieve coverage and reduce hotspots whether it's through the reflector or diffuser design. Now, assuming I've understood everything you've put down numbers wise correctly. Would you contend that if @leepink23 kept his T5HO's the same (4B+) and added 3 more Radions running the same program as you calculated wattage wise above (so about 527W total) over his tank that his results would be as good or better than if he switched to the ~500w halides?? Not a trick question just curious since that would be a more apples to apples comparison in terms of presumed radiated wattage. I'm using the 105.4W watt metric also because I imagine the coverage benefits the 5 radions would give could negate the need for any diffusers. And, more broadly, do you think a lot of the success stories of people switching from LED or LED hybrid to halide or full T5 are simply because the total radiant flux of the legacy tech is just higher due to increased wattages (ie ppl underspec the amount of LED modules they actually need to see really impressive success) ??
14k phoenix is pretty much the only DE bulb I really trust these days. Not to knock any others, but the phoenix hexarc blue is such a known quantity and IMO the closest thing to a properly HQI driven 250W Radium lamp in terms of color and output. You've got a recipe for success on your hands right there I think.
I don't really use "good" or "better" just try to keep some aware of these things..
